How do we love God? 3 types of love for God

The love of the heart. Because we are moved and we feel tenderness and palpitate with love for our father, our mother, a loved one; and almost never do we have a surge of affection for our God? Yet God is our father, friend, benefactor; it's all for our heart; He says: What more could I do for you? The day of the Saints was a continuous beat of love for God, and how is ours?

2. Love in fact. Sacrifice is proof of love. It is worth little repeating: I love you, my God; I live for you, my God: I am all yours, when you do not remain attached to sin, when there is no work done for the love of God, when you do not want to suffer anything for him, when you are not willing to sacrifice everything for him. Blessed Valfrè felt, with penances, with resignation, with a thousand works of charity, his love of God; we are only good in words ...?

3. The love that unites. Love the earth, you will become earth; turn to heaven, you will become heavenly (St. Augustine); our heart loves comfort, riches, pleasures, honors; it feeds on mud and remains nailed to the earth. The Saints joined God in prayer, in fervent Communions, in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, in all actions; and thus they became spiritually elevated, in language, in behavior, in their works.

PRACTICE. - Invoke often: Lord, I want to love you, give me your holy love.